#luxon #onetermgovt #nzpol Pic courtesy of cybogloblin

I keep hearing this argument that a good CEO doesn't make a good PM. Trouble is they are referring to Luxon. He was a bad CEO. The same troubles with AirNZ as with NZ under his tenure: bad morale, lack of care for workers, ignoring experts, increasing debt. Bad CEO, bad PM. #nzpol

....i'm dead #nzpol

This is blatant fuckery. Just grifting off all of us. We need to kick the petroleum habit. Go solar. Go wind. Yesterday.

National Party sucks. Has for a long time. What i mean by that is they are incompetent: lower growth, lower GDP, higher government debt, unemployment, and credit downgrades whenever they are in power. The current govt is just speedrunning what National has done for nigh on half a century #nzpol

Rapid response mock outrage smear machine #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/teatatin...

Absolute banger of a video... As every one of Barry's videos are. Digging into the psychology of economics and why everything is so f*kd rn... It doesn't entirely translate outside the UK but the overall idea does youtu.be/Nm_L9VCBJ_E #garyseconomics #barryseconomics

open.substack.com/pub/the307/p... "Free speech absolutist" xitter, huh

OpenAI's former Safety Lead just confirmed what our research has shown: AI companies can deploy safeguards to prevent harm in a matter of hours. They're choosing not to. AI-assisted violence isn't inevitable. It's a decision.👇

So #ai hallucinates, makes stuff up when it doesn't know the answer, it's getting worse, and the only fix they have would ruin the product. So many ways in which this "ai boom" is a scam...

The underutilisation rate is higher than it was IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC. And it's rising. 409,000 people in NZ are either unemployed or under-employed (in casual or part-time work). Are we "fixing the basics"? #onetermgovt #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... So NATIONAL has been forcing their politics into our classrooms. #nzpol

I'm on Bluesky! Apparently it is not always terrible here! But what the government is up to is terrible so I made a round up of all the upcoming bills you can submit on #nzpol #kikorangi www.emilywrites.co.nz/ok/

We all know Winston Peters is in it for himself. Regardless, sometimes, even now, he is sometimes perceptive enough to be correct (and it suits him to say so). This deal is good for India, not for NZ. @chrishipkins.bsky.social supporting this is a bad mistake for NZ.

Seymour in the news saying he'll never stop fighting for democracy and equality, when he literally wrote a book saying be hates both #nzpol

youtu.be/ZxRB5qWphJE sums up my feelings on the under-16 social media ban in Aus. Mind the strong language. Too f***ing right. #nzpol #auspol

Their excuse: taking action to reduce emissions will "destroy the economy". The truth is completely the opposite, it will be GOOD for the economy, many experts have said this. More opposition parties need to be saying this too. #nzpol

Oh so that's all they're worried about

Funny how they said they wanted to get central govt out of local govt, then once in power they turn around and do a local govt takeover. #bish #nzpol ...funny tho, i thought at first this was about the bish trying to roll luxon, lol #coc

@chrishipkins.bsky.social please tell us this isn't you, and that you'll meet the moment of unprecedented combo of inequality, public service degradation, housing and cost of living crisis. Speeches at the AGM painted the below picture

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... Good news about the tech sector! But some telling details: the top 200 tech companies invest more into R&D than the govt... Because this govt slashed R&D funding. The tech sector sees huge opportunities in renewable energy. This govt doesn't. Maybe they should. #nzpol

Wow. This does follow a trend over the last couple years of Labour undermining the Greens. This article in particular points out that Little is really pretty right-wing, actually.

#taxtherich #nzpol

#meta #facebook #billionaires #scams

It's funny how a few years ago there was a lot of talk about how EVs would put a strain on the power grid - which was proven to be untrue, in fact they can help alleviate it by providing storage. Turns out the very real and very large tech drain on the grid is AI. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Graphic and meme by @kaimataara.bsky.social

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

@chrishipkins.bsky.social solid policy, not bad. I expect it will help shift property investors into investing in business at least a little bit. I just do wish that Labour understood that you win the centre with messaging, better narrative, not with positioning #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#wealthtax #taxwealthnotwork

@chewienz.bsky.social thanks for the link. If we had a govt with a clue, we would be using "social profit" as a measure here. #nzpol www.eur.nl/en/news/rese...

Well i mean, yeah. #nzpol Tens of billions for roads. Pennies for health, education, disability, police and other public services

Something I hope Labour's Future Fund tackles first. Something to benefit all NZers #nzpol

Listen to the sound of New Zealand ingenuity in action. Hamilton jets and twin carbon fibre hulls allow our country's newest electric ferry to slice through the water efficiently, all without a single droplet of Victorian-era diesel. Runs on renewable Ecotricity power too! The future is here. 💪🔋

When you think about it, it's kind of funny how the best things we could *actually* do for roads and travel times in AoNZ is rebuild our rail network and massively increase funding for public transport, walking and cycling

Damn. They even knew this in the 1950s

So lemme get this right, we burned 50k jobs, lost 90k citizens, fucked the energy, retail, hospo, manufacturing businesses, murdered worker rights and equal pay, set fire to public services and threw the entire health service in the dumpster And we didnt fix inflation? #Nzpol

For anyone who needs this right now.

Wow the FIRST thing this coaltion of chaos did was cancel the pumped hydro scheme that would have stored 5000GWh of excess renewable energy as hydroelectricity in dams. #onetermgovernment #nzpol

www.instagram.com/reel/DI4lnia... really interesting, someone taking on #taxwealthnotwork from a different angle than @garyseconomics.bsky.social #politics #economics #wealthinequality #nzpol

youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA so accurate. I'm so impressed. #nzpol

"Fox News" is the WWE of news. As real as pro wrestling.

I remember when a protester punched the co-leader of the Greens in the face. Hana Maipi-Clarke had her home broken into by a political stalker. I recall VFF protesting outside Clarke's parents' home while Jacinda was on holiday. I dont remember hearing about National's concerns back then??

It's heartening to seen RNZ's pretty relentless coverage of the terrible jobs market and illustrating very clearly that despite his protestations in Parliament today, he does not in fact care at all about 18 and 19 year olds. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

A lot of comedians are just horrible assholes but I also wonder if the rush to embrace the Riyadh Comedy Festival money says something about how bad the internal economy of the comedy podcaster sphere is doing

What's NZ's energy crisis? A. Fossil fuel businesses aren't making big enough profits B. The average consumer can't afford energy prices C. Terawatts of potential wind and solar power are being wasted D. Our current energy profile reduces our survival prospects Luxon believes the answer is A #nzpol

Spain is leading the way, while our current coalition of chaos has lost their way. We have more coastline, more wind, more land area than Spain. See what we could do instead of encouraging investment in coal and gas that wont even come online for a decade or more. #nzpol